FromFrenchindéclinable, fromMiddle French, fromLatinindeclinabilis. Equivalent toin- +declinable.
indeclinable (notcomparable)
- That one cannotdecline;unavoidable.
1994, Helen R. Myers,To Wed at Christmas, page101:He'd planned to work a double shift Friday night, but Gladys Silverman'sindeclinable invitation threw a hefty wrench into David's plans.
- (grammar, of a word) Notgrammaticallydeclinable; of a word, having noinflections.
not grammatically declinable
indeclinable (pluralindeclinables)
- (grammar) A word that is not grammatically inflected.
Borrowed fromLatinindēclīnābilis.
indeclinable m orf (masculine and feminine pluralindeclinables)
- indeclinable
- “indeclinable”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “indeclinable”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
- “indeclinable” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “indeclinable” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FromLatinindēclīnābilis.
- IPA(key): /indekliˈnable/[ĩn̪.d̪e.kliˈna.β̞le]
- Rhymes:-able
- Syllabification:in‧de‧cli‧na‧ble
indeclinable m orf (masculine and feminine pluralindeclinables)
- (grammar)indeclinable
- unavoidable
